Regulation 14 Separation of meat fit for human consumption from specified bovine offal during storage

The provisions of this regulation shall apply to specified bovine offal once it has been severed from excluded matter which is fit for human consumption.

Subject to paragraph (4) below, no person shall store any meat fit for human consumption in the same room as any specified bovine offal unless the specified bovine offal, whether or not frozen, has been sterilised or stained and is stored according to an arrangement which ensures that it is at all times separated from the meat which is fit for human consumption.

Subject to paragraph (4) below, no person shall store any specified bovine offal unless any container, wrapper or other packaging used to hold it bears a notice of adequate size which is conspicuously visible and contains a distinct, legible and unambiguous statement to the effect that the specified bovine offal held therein is not for human consumption, together with the name of the packer and the address at which the specified bovine offal was packed.

It shall be a defence for any person charged with a contravention of, or failure to comply with, paragraph (2) or (3) above to prove that he did not know, and could not with reasonable diligence have ascertained, that the material was specified bovine offal.